The 2006 Mid-American Review Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, Creative Nonfiction Award, James Wright Poetry Award

1st Prize, each genre: $1000 + Publication
Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication

2006 Final Judges:

Fiction: Aimee Bender
Author of
Willful Creatures,
An Invisible Sign of My Own, and
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Nonfiction: Phillip Lopate
Author of
Getting Personal,
Portrait of My Body,
and Totally, Tenderly, Sweetly

Poetry: Rafael Campo
Author of
Landscape With Human Figure,
The Healing Art:
A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry,
and What the Body Told

Guidelines:

The postmark deadline for each contest is October 2, 2006. There is a $10 entry fee (check or money order, made out to Mid-American Review) for each set of three poems, or each story/essay up to 6,000 words. These contests are for previously unpublished work only. Submissions will not be returned; send SASE for early results (~late December, 2006). Pages need not be left anonymous. All participants will receive MAR v. XXVII, no. 2, where the winners will be published. Contests are open to all writers not associated, past or present, with the judges or MAR. The judges’ decisions are final.

Send entries to

Contests
Mid-American Review
Department of English, Box W
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH 43403